Nicholas Kristof

NY Times Grumps Dump On Locavores

Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green

Read More: John Tierney, Eat Local Movement, Climate Change, Stanley Fish, Stephen J. Dubner, Marion Burros, Kim Severson, Sustainable Agriculture, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof, Global Warming, Locavore, Food, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Small-scale farmers are thriving and the rest of us are flocking to greenmarkets and planting our own veggie gardens. A handful of knee-jerk naysayers at the Times can't derail this local train.

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Kristof: Iraqi Children Our Moral Responsibility

New York Times | Posted 06.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq Reconstruction, Iraqi Refugees, Iraq War, Nicholas Kristof, Iraq, Iraqi Children, Politics News

The dirty little secret of the Iraq war isn't in Baghdad or Basra. Rather, it's found in the squalid brothels of Damascus and the poorest neighborhood...

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Hillary Clinton Isn't The Only Democratic Presidential Candidate In Denial

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 05.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Sean Bell, Colorblind, Doctors' Racial Bias, Racism, Obama, Nicholas Kristof, Post-Racial, Rahul Parikh, Home News
Leonce Gaiter

Colorblind? Post-racial? Isn't it clear that's all so much bullshit. We are all animals prone to prejudice. The price of continued denial among the Obama camp could be the election.

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Standing Sexual Politics on Its Head

Ellen Feldman | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

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Ellen Feldman

The pressure to vote for gender rather than policy and personal substance reminds me once again of the Scottsboro case which turned sexual politics on its head for half the twentieth century.

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Get Your White On, Margaret Seltzer!

Linda Keenan | Posted 03.10.2008 | Media

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Linda Keenan

It may be a tough and boring road for you, without those gunshot wounds and helicopter-hovers that seemed to liven up your drab suburban life. But we're here for you, Boo.

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How We Got a Film About a Serious Childbirth Injury (Obstetric Fistula) That No One in America Ever Heard of Into Movie Theaters

Allison Shigo | Posted 03.04.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Catherine Hamlin, Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, Reginal Hamlin, Unfpa, Ethiopia, Women's Health, Health, A Walk to Beautiful, Pregnancy, Documentaries, Nicholas Kristof, Obstetric Fistula, Childbirth, Entertainment News
Allison Shigo

Women in developing countries are either dying while giving birth or dying a symbolic death when they develop a fistula and are left to live the rest of their lives alone.

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China Exporting Inflation: Political Spin or Economic Reality?

Eben Esterhuizen | Posted 02.22.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Jeremy Warner, Low-Cost Imports, China Inflation, Inflation, Cheap Goods, Weak Dollar, Nicholas Kristof, China, Consumer Price Index, Business News
Eben Esterhuizen

China has been a convenient scapegoat for politicians lately, and now China, with its crawling peg to the weak dollar, is being blamed for exporting inflation. Is this political spin, or is there a real danger of importing higher inflation from China?

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The Right Strengthens its Hold on McCain, the Media Refuse to Notice

Arianna Huffington | Posted 02.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: McCain Maverick, Arianna Huffington, Ryan Lizza, New Yorker McCain, Nicholas Kristof, John McCain, John McCain Torture Vote, John McCain Torture, McCain Campaign, Kristof McCain, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Let's see, McCain has bowed to the party's lunatic fringe on tax cuts, immigration, the intolerance of religious bigots, and torture...so exactly how is he reinventing what it means to be a Republican?

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Jason Linkins

Kristof Offers Nonsensical Support For McCain

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain Votes Against Waterboarding Ban, John McCain, New York Times, John McCain Votes for Waterboarding, Nicholas Kristof, John McCain Torture, John McCain Votes, Nick Kristoff, Mccain Torture, Politics News

McCain is the world's worst panderer, mainly because his pandering is exacerbated by a stunning ineptness. Somehow, all of McCain's inconsistencies strike Kristof as laudable.

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Nicholas Kristof on Darfur: The First Genocide of the 21st Century

Alan Miller | Posted 12.02.2007 | Media

Read More: Darfur, Nicholas Kristof, Crisis in Darfur, Darfur Sudan, Nick Kristoff, Media News
Alan Miller

Kristof told the audience that it was 'people like you...young people' that would make the difference in stopping genocide in Darfur, as historically the U.S. has not intervened.

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